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Stu-Pendous Blog - Archives for April 2009

These are the thoughts of speaker, author and camp director Stu Saunders.
For Stu’s original blog, you may still access his archives here.

• Positive Pandemic?

  Apr 30, 2009

  So much news over the last week about the Swine Flu. I am in fact a person that was in Mexico for the beginning of this “crisis”. I have been in quarantine for the last 5 days. I am fine. I feel as if the world is almost excited about the negative news. It got me thinking about a different type of pandemic… a positive one.

  What if we tracked positive acts that happened around the world. You would turn on the news and see a world map showing positive acts happening in real time. Instead of WHO (World Health Organization) there would be WPO (World Positive Organization).

  It would be so exciting not depressing. I am all for it, I think if we focused the amount of media time on positive actions rather then negative hype the world would be a better place…

  Ok I have to go now there’s an update on CNN about the positive flu…

  
  

  Posted by Stu Saunders in Leadership on Apr 30, 2009 at 1:08 pm | Permanent Link | Comments (1)

• seventy three

  Apr 6, 2009

  Here’s the amazing thing. My father is 73 years old. He and my mom who is 70, have been living in the jungle for 5 weeks in Costa Rica. Their days are full of adventure. Hiking through the mountains, riding rafts down the river, waking at 5 am to swim under a waterfall.

  I just got a bunch of pictures from them. The one I have included is of my father repelling down a cliff into a warm pool at the base of a waterfall.

  He’s 73 years old. Stop putting off the life you were destined to live people. Do something amazing today. His actions have inspired me for sure.

  

  
  

  Posted by Stu Saunders in Family Life Learning and Growing Motivation on Apr 6, 2009 at 2:01 pm | Permanent Link | Comments (5)

• Rejuvenate

  Apr 2, 2009

  I am sitting at my dining room table. Steaming cup of coffee in my hand. My windows are open. The song of a thousand birds echo from the trees. I close my eyes and feel their excitement to be awake. They are soaking up the brilliant morning sun. I look out to the grassy hill in my front yard. The long grass has been pressed down by the snow. It looks like a heard of wild animals had perhaps stampeded through.

  Amongst the open yard there are two radically different worlds. A small patch of snow is holding on. Defying the warmth of the sun. Refusing to melt away into the soon forgotten season. Inches away, a small patch of neon green bursts through the trampled grass. Reaching for the sun. Its tiny leaves stretched outwards like a father waiting for his child to fall into his arms.

  I see myself as both the snow patch and the green new growth. Holding onto my past, trying not to let go of the coldness of what I know needs to be cut free. I live though for new growth… reaching for brighter, warmer days. To grow and learn and be stronger, more alive.

  What are you doing today to grow? Let what you know needs to… go.

  Spring.

  Rejuvenate.

  
  

  Posted by Stu Saunders in Leadership Learning and Growing Motivation on Apr 2, 2009 at 12:04 pm | Permanent Link | Comments (7)

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